Adolf Funk (architect)
Adolf Funk (born March 22, 1819 in Stadthagen ; † June 15, 1889 in Hanover ; full name also Adolph Christian Wilhelm Funk ) was a German architect and Hanoverian construction officer , he is one of the representatives of the round arch style .
Life
The son of pastor Wilhelm Christian Funk attended grammar school in Bückeburg from 1833 to 1834 and studied at the Hanover Polytechnic with Ernst Ebeling from 1834 to 1839 .
First he worked on road construction in the Solling , under Georg Wendelstadt on the design of the chain bridge over the Neckar near Mannheim and in the 1840s on the construction of the Magdeburg – Leipzig and Dresden – Prague railway lines.
He was appointed building manager in 1842 and building inspector in 1845 after passing the state examination . In 1850 he became the head of the construction engineering office of the Hanoverian Railway Directorate.
In 1867 he moved to Osnabrück and worked for the Cologne-Mindener Railway Company .
buildings
- With his colleague Julius Rasch (architect) , the large provincial lunatic asylums in Osnabrück (1861–1868, on the site of the Gertrudenberg monastery ) and Göttingen (1862–1864), the midwifery school in Hanover (1862–1864) and a number elegant houses in Hanover and the surrounding area.
- Scheeßel station
- Leer train station (East Friesland)
literature
- Günther Kokkelink , Monika Lemke-Kokkelink : Architecture in Northern Germany. Architecture and handicrafts of the Hanover School 1850–1900. Schlueter, Hannover 1998, ISBN 3-87706-538-4 , p. 526 and others.
- Helmut Knocke : FUNK, Adolf. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 124, etc. ( Google books ).
- Helmut Knocke: Funk, Adolf. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 198.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Helmut Knocke: FUNK ... (see literature)
- ^ Dataset on Adolph Funk in the Architects and Artists database with direct reference to Conrad Wilhelm Hase (1818–1902) , last accessed on March 21, 2011
- ↑ "Osnabrück State Insane Asylum", Knollstrasse 15
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Funk, Adolf |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Funk, Adolf Christian Wilhelm (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architect and Hanoverian building officer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 22, 1819 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stadthagen |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 15, 1889 |
| Place of death | Hanover |